Utterly beautiful new video showing a wrecking ball in action in Baltimore.
This is absolutely stunning. Great footage, majestic soundtrack, and a wrecking ball used with accuracy and care. This could become a Demolition News classic!
Let us know what you think or suggest your alternatives for video of the year in the Comments area below.
More photos have just become available of the new Rusch Triple 34-25 in Norway.
We would never suggest that you, our loyal readers, are predictable. But there are two things guaranteed to be popular here on Demolition News: video of demolition gone bad; and video and photos of big machines.
Thankfully, unless our news sources have betrayed us, there’s currently no new footage of demolition gone awry so instead here’s some more details on the Rusch Triple 34-25 that is currently undergoing assembly and testing in Norway before it starts work eating decommissioned oil rigs for breakfast. This is quite a unique opportunity to see this extraordinary piece of machinery in use. Not even all the money from your savings accounts could afford one of these, so it is nice to be able to see one being used. You can think about what you’d like to see get demolished by it.
In addition, Rusch’ Ruud Schreijer has very kindly provided us with a diagram showing the working range of the latest beast to roll out of his company’s gates.
New photo showing the 34-25 high reach excavator from Dutch modifier Rusch.
When your best-known machine has a working height of 90 metres, anything else is going to look pretty small by comparison. But don’t be fooled. The machine in the photo (left) might only reach a lowly 34 metres, but it can wield a 25 tonne too at that height (and no, there isn’t a decimal point missing there. It really DOES say 25 tonnes!)
The compact crusher bandwagon rolls on with two new Italian contenders.
Picture the scene. You are the marketing manager of an Italian equipment manufacturer that is just a few months away from launching a pair of new but as yet unnamed compact crushers. It is your job to think of an appropriate name that will convey power, durability, productivity, environmental benefits and green credentials.
Tough, isn’t it?
Which is probably why Guidetti chose instead to emphasise the “Italianness” of its new offering in the increasingly crowded track-mounted compact crusher market by calling them the Caesar 1 and Caesar 2. (Sorry, but since my name is Mark Anthony, I do feel honour-bound to give them just a slight stabbing).
Full specification details are available on the Guidetti website, but we can tell you that the Caesar 1 weighs in at 3.2 tonnes and offers a crusher throughput of 20 tonnes/hour while the larger 6.7 tonne Caesar 2 is said to produce 50 tonnes/hour.
You can see both new machines in action below:
The new GDR-200 is the latest attachment to join the swelling Genesis product range.
Genesis has unveiled the GDR-200, a new processing attachment designed for excavators in the 20 tonne operating weight class.
The GDR-200 delivers 104 tonnes of crushing force at the tip, an 813 mm jaw depth, a jaw opening of 890 mm, and a quick seven second cycle time. Genesis says this is the largest jaw they’ve ever offered on a tool for a 20-tonne class machine.
We are searching for the greatest name for a demolition company, real or imagined.
Trawling through the vast, unmapped hinterlands of the Internet, we recently came across a New Orleans-based demolition company that goes by the marvelous name of Nutter Buster Demolition (apparently, the company is family-owned and the founder’s surname is Nutter).
We doubt that this can be beaten but we’d love to hear if you think you know, have heard of (or have just created) a better name for a demolition company.
Indignant rant about a magazine’s apparent inability to describe a machine properly.
About 25 years ago, I was told by a senior officer from within the Kent police force that one of the biggest challenges facing them when trying to recover stolen equipment was the fact that they couldn’t identify machine types. The term JCB can cover a multitude of equipment types, very few of them actually rolling off a Uttoxeter production line; and a digger can be anything from a half tonne machine you can tow behind you family car to a mining shovel that could accommodate said car in its bucket.
This is not the kind of thing the police have to deal with every day so, even a quarter of a century on, I am still happy to make allowances on this basis. But what excuse can there possibly be when one of the UK’s leading construction magazines perpetuates this ignorance?
In this article, which ironically is on the subject of plant theft, we have references to:
There would be outcry if, instead of using the proper name and nomenclature, Jeremy Clarkson described Ferrari’s latest offering a “a red car”. And how would you get on if you popped into your local mobile phone shop and asked for “a Nokia”.
Surely we should expect a little more accuracy and attention detail from a supposed industry magazine.
Visitors to the Demolition News website just hit a record high…
When we first unveiled Demolition News approximately one year ago, we regularly monitored our traffic statistics on Google Analytics; and it often made for pretty depressing reading. Indeed, in our first month in operation, there were six days in which no-one at all visited the site.
How things have changed.
Thanks in part to an influx of new subscribers from the US, possibly attracted by our “why don’t Americans GET high reach demolition” story (our most widely read and commented on this month), the number of visits yesterday hit an all time daily high and have contributed to making August our most successful month to date.
But while we’re delighted to have established a readership “across the pond”, one of the most telling statistics is that more than 10% of all our readers have returned to the site more than 200 times.
Equally pleasing is that the second most visited area of the website, attracting just over a third of ALL visitors,, is our new Business Directory. This has been achieved with just 13 listings, the majority from long-time Demolition News supporters. Just imagine what that could look like if this became a definitive listing of all demolition-related products and services!
So we would just like to take this opportunity to thank all our subscribers, new and regular readers, and of course our sponsors, without whom we simply wouldn’t be here.
New high definition video truly captures beauty of Montana smokestack implosion.
Last week, we brought you footage of Asarco Demolition’s dual implosion of a pair of smokestacks in Montana. But we’ve just uncovered this new high definition footage of the blast. If only all demolition video looked as good as this (and be sure to hit the Full Screen option – the four little arrows in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen):
Asarco Smelter Demolition [RED 4K] from Tempest HD Productions on Vimeo.
What happens to your demolition qualifications if you find yourself unemployed…?
Demolition News has today received a message from one of its readers who (like far too many others) finds himself in the unfortunate position of currently being unemployed and unable to afford to pay to maintain his demolition qualification card. Which set us thinking – Is this really fair?
The man in question – and he is NOT alone – has spent 40 years working in the demolition industry. He has worked his way up through the ranks, committed to the required training route, and has achieved Top Man status thanks in part to the backing of his employer and the grant funding available to them, but also thanks to his own hard graft and commitment over the years.
And now, through no fault of his own, he finds his beloved industry in recession and himself prematurely on the scrapheap. From a personal point of view, the man in question is now having to consider alternative forms of employment because the cost of the card renewal is beyond his current means.
But what of the cost to the industry?
This is a man with four decades of hands-on experience in an industry where experience is everything.
Can we REALLY afford to allow a man like this (and the hundreds of others like him) to take their knowledge to another or worse, to abandon it altogether?
We’d love to hear your comments on this matter. In addition, if you find yourself in this unfortunate position, don’t forget to register at www.demolition-jobs.co.uk.
